A Bit of Earth is about the garden, but it’s also about us—as we are made from dirt.
This is an excerpt from Broken Bonds: A Novel of the Reformation by Amy Mantravadi (1517 Publishing, 2024), pgs. 24-27
Thanksgiving is never out of place for the Christian.

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This great victory, the true defeat of death, I receive not by my thinking, willing, or working, but simply by believing.
A Christian is a man who desires to enter heaven not through his own goodness and works, but through the righteousness and works of Christ.
In the place of God, Marx sets the material, autonomous, self-creating man.
The relationship between faith and prayer or belief and worship is mutual. Faith produces prayer and prayer expresses faith.
On May 2nd, Cantate Sunday, in the year 1507, Luther celebrated his first Mass.
Not only does Scripture command us to maintain purity of doctrine and practice, it also commands us to reconcile with our brother, to seek to end division, and recognize common ground where there is common ground.
Even if not a turning point, 1518 is a point of no return for Luther.
We confess the ascension of Christ every Sunday in the words of the both the Apostles’ and the Nicene Creed.
Apathy, melancholy, and disillusionment plague the footsteps of the up-and-coming generations more than ever, especially in the realm of religion, and it’s worth asking, “Why?”
What is it that the 13th session actually has to say about the Eucharist, and how does it compare to what Luther and the reformers confessed about the Lord’s Supper?
As much as Luther calls Christians to a sober belief in the devil, he also calls them to a firm and steadfast faith in Christ
Cyprian actually rejected the accusation that he believed in rebaptism because he considered only the baptism within the church to be a valid or true baptism.